System and Methods for Monitoring a Geographic Information System
First Claim
1. A method for monitoring a geographic information system, the method comprising:
- for each service of a plurality of geographic services provided by one or more service computers, periodically performing;
selecting, by a monitoring computer, a geographic information test routine corresponding to the service;
requesting, by the monitoring computer, performance of the selected geographic information test routine by the service;
monitoring, by the monitoring computer, communications from a service computer of the one or more service computers providing the service;
evaluating, by the monitoring computer, information in any response to the request received from the service computer of the one or more service computers providing the service with respect to an expected geographic information system content specification corresponding to the service;
if one of no response to the request is received within a response window and information in any response to the request does not conform to the expected geographic information system content specification, outputting, by the monitoring computer, an output indicating an error status for the service.
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Abstract
Disclosed are new approaches for monitoring an information system such as a GIS. For each service of a plurality of services provided by service computers, a periodic evaluation is performed by requesting performance of the selected test service routine by the service. If no valid response to the request is received within a response window the monitoring computer may produce an output indicating an error status for the service. The response window may be a time window or a maximum number of transmitted requests without a valid response. A monitoring computer may transmit requests to perform a service at a first period if an error indicator associated therewith is set and periodically at a second period if the error indicator associated therewith is not set. Requests to perform the service may not be transmitted during an exclusion time associated with a service or its corresponding service computer.
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1. A method for monitoring a geographic information system, the method comprising:
for each service of a plurality of geographic services provided by one or more service computers, periodically performing; selecting, by a monitoring computer, a geographic information test routine corresponding to the service; requesting, by the monitoring computer, performance of the selected geographic information test routine by the service; monitoring, by the monitoring computer, communications from a service computer of the one or more service computers providing the service; evaluating, by the monitoring computer, information in any response to the request received from the service computer of the one or more service computers providing the service with respect to an expected geographic information system content specification corresponding to the service; if one of no response to the request is received within a response window and information in any response to the request does not conform to the expected geographic information system content specification, outputting, by the monitoring computer, an output indicating an error status for the service.
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